Women and death in film, television, and news
Subtitle: dead but not gone
By: Joanne Clarke Dillman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781137457684
Subjects: Women in mass media; Murder victims in mass media; Missing persons in mass media; Women; Violence against; Crimes against
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Film narratives, dead women, and their meaning in a changing world; title: Family films gone terribly wrong: The lovely bones (2009) and Disturbia; title: Television narratives and dead women: channeling change; title: News-mediated narratives of disappearance: Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Natalee Holloway, and conventions of dead women in the news; title: Conclusion.